It is not an exaggeration to say that Charles Dickens is perhaps more important to Christmas than even Santa Claus. In fact, Santa Claus only works for Christmas in so far as his lore uses the Dickens’ story structure. Christmas was exported by the English to the world, like the English language and English clothes and English law. Even though in many w…
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